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Westlife's First Number One Album
12 November 2000 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Westlife have beaten off tough competition from the Spice Girls, their album Coast to Coast sold 234,767 copies in its first week of release. The Spice Girls' Forever only sold 71,000.

Westlife told The Sun newspaper: "We are over the moon. We'd like to give a huge thanks to all our fans for being so supportive and helping us to achieve this very personal goal"

Coast to Coast knocked U2's All That You CanĂ­t Leave Behind off the top spot, down to number four.

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